George Adamidi bey Frashëri

George Adamidi bey Frashëri
Born Gaqo Adhamidhi
1859
Korçë, Ottoman Albania
Died 1939
Occupation Physician
Known for Albanian representative int the League of Nations
"Dr. Adhamuti" personage

George Adamidi bey Frashëri (1859 - 1939), also referred as Gaqo Adhamidhi or Georges Adamidis[1] was an Albanian physician, and political figure during the early 20th century.[2]

Life

Adamidi was born in Korçë, back then Ottoman Empire, today's Albania.[2] Like most of the members of the Orthodox community there he emigrated at a young age. He settled in Egypt, where he studied medicine and became a physician. Adamidi was a close friend of the physician and politician Mihal Turtulli, another prominent member from the ranks of the Albanian community of Egypt.[3]
Adamidi served during 1892-1914 as personal doctor of Abbas II of Egypt, the last khedive of Egypt and Sudan from the dynasty of Muhammad Ali. In 1914, following the events of the Albanian Declaration of Independence and the newly creates Albanian state, Adamidi returned to Albania where he served as Minister of Finance in the cabinet of 1914 (resigned on 20 May 1914) headed by Turhan Pasha Përmeti, the first government of the Principality of Albania.[4] With the outbreak of WWI he settled in Switzerland,[4] associating with the University of Lausanne. He stayed many years in Switzerland, becoming chairman of the "Albanian National Council" there, a political society of the Albanian diaspora in Geneva. He also represented Albania in the League of Nations.[2]

As a personage

It is accepted that the Albanian poet and playwright Andon Çako, better known as Andon Zako Çajupi, one of the prominent activists of the Albanian National Awakening, based his comic personage "Dr. Adhamuti" of his comedy Klubi i Selanikut (Thessaloniki's Club) based on George Adamidi.[2] The reason was a personal vendetta due to a Zako's matchmaking gone bad, for which he might have accused Adamidi. Inside Zako's comedy, "Dr. Adhamuti" is described as a grotesque, penny-pinching, ignorant, pro-Ottoman, pseudo physician.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Aubrey Herbert, Albania's greatest friend : Aubrey Herbert and the making of modern Albania : diaries and papers, 1904-1923, London;New York: I.B. Tauris, p. 218, ISBN 9781848854444
  2. 1 2 3 4 Robert Elsie (2012), A Biographical Dictionary of Albanian History, London; New York: I.B.Tauris, pp. 4–5, ISBN 9781780764313
  3. 1 2 Ben Andoni (2011-12-14), Si e denigroi Çajupi Adhamidhin [How Çajupi denigrated Adamidi] (in Albanian), Gazeta Shqiptare
  4. 1 2 Brahim Avdyli (2011-05-12), Bazat e mërgatës shqiptare në Zvicër [Basis of the Albanian emigre in Switzerland] (in Albanian), AlbaniaPress
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